Children and Childhood in Africa and the Caribbean, Slavery, Race Relations, Critical Applied History and Historical Consciousness; comparative slavery and emancipation in the Americas; 18th and 19th c. Caribbean history; children and childhood; race relations

State formation, moral regulation and knowledge forms; development of the “social and moral sciences”; theories of governance; identifying practices and powers of state; the administration of subjectivity; reflexive sociology; population; classification; sexuality; science and technology; comparative educational development. Area interest: the Canadas and the British Empire c. 1780-1900.

19th-20th c. intellectual and cultural history; historiography, theory and method in history; religion, education (public and higher), disciplinary cultures, books and publishing, the intersection of high culture and popular culture

19th-20th c. social, cultural, and religious history; history of the body & gender; visual culture, social space, and representation; public memory and national/regional identities; history of the archive; western Canada

Political trials and the administration of national security measures in Canadian history; Utilitarianism, 19th century criminal law reform and codification; Comparative study of rule of law issues and 19th century British colonial and post colonial governance

public history; representing the past in film and theatre; history and museums; 16-17th c. England; political and cultural history; Elizabethan political culture; culture and memory; history and method

Late 19th to 20th c. United States history; imperialism and foreign relations; liberalism and pluralism in American social thought; international relations; NATO and Atlanticism; nuclear strategy; cultural and international theory

19th-20th c. social, cultural, and religious history; history of the body & gender; visual culture, social space, and representation; public memory and national/regional identities; history of the archive; western Canada